The Dark Knight: The Joker

[Dreaming Of Pandora]

Wanna know how I got these scars? My father was a drinker and a fiend. He'd beat mommy right in front of me. One night he goes off crazier than usual, mommy gets the kitchen knife to defend herself. He doesn't like that. Not. One. Bit.

So, me watching, he takes the knife to her, laughing while he does it. Turns to me and says 'why so serious?' Comes at me with the knife- 'why so serious?' Sticks the blade in my mouth- 'Let's put a smile on that face' and...

Why so serious?

You look nervous- it's the scars isn't it? Wanna know how I got them? I had a wife, beautiful like you. Who tells me I worry too much. Who says I need to smile more. Who gambles. And gets in deep with the sharks. One day they carve her face, and we've got no money for surgeries. She can't take it.

I just want to see her smile again. I just want her to know I don't care about the scars. So I put a razor in my mouth and do this to myself... And you know what? She can't stand the sight of me... She leaves! See, now I see the funny side. Now I'm always smiling.

Dent: Your men. Your plan.

Joker: Do I really look like a guy with a with a plan, Harvey? I don't have a plan... You know what I am?

I'm a dog chasing cars... I wouldn't know what to do with one if I caught it... I'm not a schemer, I show the schemers how pathetic their attempts to control things really are.

Dent's alive, Jim. Just. But back at M.C.U.... the Joker's gone...

Gordon: With Lau? The Joker planned to be caught. He wanted me to lock him up in M.C.U..

This city deserves a better class of criminal, and I'm going to give it to them. This is my town now. Tell your men they work for me.

Everything. Burns.

Just a little discussion about the Joker based on these quotes. Unfortunately Heath Ledger had most of the answers to who the Joker really was but why do you think the Joker is so contradictory in The Dark Knight? Why does he have different stories of how he got his scars? What's the real story?

Those kind of questions, basically trying to pin down the true character of the Joker.